>I bicycled hardcore for many years, clocking 200-250mi per week. Drafting
>trucks was a way of life. Then I had an attitude adjusting experience when
>an empty Alpha Beta truck I'd been drafting at about 55 mph, slammed on the
>brakes for a red light. Lucky for me I saw the light turn yellow and had
>just enough time to plant one hand firmly on the back of his truck and tried
>my hardest to keep from loosing the bike from under me while the back of his
>truck bounced around. At one point I thought my front wheel had actually
>touched the truck. I shook like a leaf on the side of the road for at least
>an hour. I don't think I ever drafted or tailgated again. It isn't worth
>your life. (Vanagon content below)

Don't they have a speed limit for bicycles there? Here it's 24kmh,
not that bicyclists are interested in obeying it (or any other road
law, for that matter, or "no cycling' signs).
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut